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Capital Harness
The de facto software solution for the electrical wire harness industry
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CAPITAL HARNESS
A comprehensive set of software tools that enable the design, engineering for manufacture,
validation and costing of complex open loom wire harnesses. The product suite includes a
powerful graphical harness design interface, automated harness engineering and validation
capability, comprehensive reporting, analysis and costing features.

Capital Harness Overview

Capital Harness™ takes physical and Capital Harness comprises of two key process ensuring the completed harness
electrical system requirement data and elements Capital Engineer and Capital are correct by design and correct for
enriches the information to produce Costing manufacture.
engineered and costed harnesses drawn in
Capital Engineer provides a graphical Capital Costing takes the completed
2D format. Extensive engineering,
harness drawing environment for harness designs and automatically
validation and reporting features furnish a
engineers to view and modify design calculates assembly times and material
full manufacturing bill-of-materials,
information. Its automated engineering costs accurately and quickly.
associated labor and material costs, plus
and validation routines facilitate the
feeds into downstream manufacturing and
component selection and engineering
production applications.

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CAPITAL HARNESS SYSTEMS

Capital Harness Systems™ (CHS) is conceived as a complementary, end-to-end tool set for complex wire harness flows. Data is
accessed centrally by Mentor Graphics designed or approved CHS tools to automate many steps in design, analysis and manufacture.
CHS manages advanced harness concepts such as composite (variants and options), modular designs and effectivity throughout the
product design life cycle. CHS imports from and shares data with legacy systems, MCAD and PDM tools as needed.

In a full CHS flow, system connectivity is imported into Capital Manager™ and converged with topology data to route and partition
harnesses automatically. Capital Design™ tools are used to create block, functional or wiring diagrams and allow graphical editing prior
to saving. Capital Harness™ embellishes these logical designs with engineering data for costing and manufacture. The completed
designs are then released into Capital Factory™, which automatically creates formboard drawings and other assembly aids. Capital
Analysis™ tools can be used throughout the flow to assist in component selection and to identify failure modes. Capital Bridges™
facilitates the use of third party and legacy products and exchanges MCAD data for collaborative design. Capital Viewer™ tools
automatically generates views of the data on demand. These views can then be expressed as a schematic diagram, text report or a
graphical view.

CHS consolidates many years of leading-edge harness design and manufacturing experience to assemble an integrated, data-centric
solution whose tools always will evolve with a view to protecting customer investment.

l CAPITAL MANAGER

The heart of CHS, Capital Manager, is accessed

freely by all tools. It supports advanced concepts
including composite and modular design, manages
effectivity, options and variants and facilitates
collaboration with legacy and MCAD systems.

l CAPITAL SYSTEMS

Capital Systems™ describes tools used by system

designers for tabular or graphical capture of
connectivity data. Subsequent storage within and
re-use from Capital Manager facilitates the
generation of full wiring diagrams.

l CAPITAL DESIGN

The Capital Design family of CHS tools create

block, functional and wiring diagrams using
powerful graphical editing capabilities or by
synthesis from converged connectivity and
topology data using customer specific design rules.

l CAPITAL HARNESS l CAPITAL ENTERPRISE

Capital Harness™ acts upon logical designs to
create fully engineered and costed harnesses
drawn in 2D format. Extensive engineering
validation and reporting outputs full bill-of-
materials, labor and material costs plus feeds into
downstream manufacturing and production
applications.
l CAPITAL FACTORY
Capital Factory utilizes CHS data to aid
production of the harness. A flexible formboard
editing tool produces 1:1 assembly drawings while
data feeds to production and test equipment further
streamline the build process.
Capital Enterprise are enabled by the data-centricity inherent in CHS. Data exchange is now
a simple process within the harnessing flow and can readily be achieved with third party
mechanical, electrical, PDM software and in-house applications.
l CAPITAL VIEWERS
Capital Viewers automatically generates views of the data on demand. These views can then
be expressed as a schematic diagram, text report or a graphical view.
l CAPITAL ANALYSIS
Capital Analysis tools are intended to interrogate CHS data at any time to assist in
component selection and sizing. Capital Analysis will identify, and where possible quantify
potential failure modes in a variety of scenarios. The system will interface with specialist
analyst tools such as EMI/EMC and transient analysis simulators.
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Capital Engineer

Capital Engineer enables the design, engineering and validation of complex wire harnesses for
manufacture.

Manufacture - Key benefits:

• A powerful graphical design environment developed specially for the wire harness industry
• Support of complex wire harness configurations including options, variants and modules
• Full bill-of-materials and harness validation calculation routines based on industry best practices
• Comprehensive component definition and management functionality
• Powerful reporting and analysis, including harness comparisons, wire cutting charts, tooling reports
and weight calculations

Harness Industrialization Design Data Import Component Library Management

Design functions allow base harness
designs to be created from the ground up or
enhanced from imported data. Harness
designers can quickly lay out bundles, add
components stored within Capital Manager
and define wires. Automatic selection of
components such as terminals and seals
speeds up the design process. Powerful
viewing and search features allow users to
navigate complex harness designs.
Complexity Management
Capital Harness supports the variant and
options design concept throughout. Harness
definition maintenance overhead is reduced
and redundant wire and connectors can be
eliminated, saving weight and reducing
cost. Complexity management is further
enhanced with Capital Modular. This allows
designs to be defined on a module-by-
module basis based on its technical
features.
Change Management
A large percentage of a harness maker’s
workload is taken up dealing with design
changes, Capital Engineer ensures that
modifications to harness designs can be
made efficiently. As Capital Engineer stores
all data relating to a harness in Capital
Manager, the designer can copy an existing
harness and modify it rather than starting
from scratch. The system provides a
complete audit trail of the changes made.
Through a comprehensive set of interfaces, Harness components such as connectors,
harness data can be imported into Capital wires, multicores and harness coverings can
be created or imported into Capital
Engineer from the leading 3D physical and
Engineer. Copy, component prototype and
2D electrical schematic systems ensuring
family features exploit the power of Capital
maximum data re-use. This eliminates Manager to eliminate laborious component
duplication of data entry and speeds up the management tasks.
design-to-manufacture process.
Engineering and Validation
Engineering routines automatically optimize
splice positions and calculate precise wire
lengths, bundle sizes, taping quantities and
Electrical Logic
tube lengths to produce a full
manufacturing bill-of-materials. Capital
Engineer allows users to check that 3D Physical Constraints
engineered harnesses are error free before
they go to production. The validity
checking identifies errors and eliminates OEM System Design Data
costly re-work and delays.
Reporting and Analysis
Capital Engineer enables data-centric
reporting and analysis on harness designs.
Tasks for producing information such as
tool usage reports and wire cutting sheets
are completely automated. Harness weights
can be calculated at the touch of a button
along with analysis such as bundle by
bundle breakdowns and harness statistics
reports. Users are also able to create their
own custom reports.
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Capital Costing

Capital Costing is an automated harness costing system within Capital Harness that calculates
both harness assembly times in terms of a labor and machine overhead and material purchasing
costs and selling prices.

Labor - Key benefits:

• Company configurable cost methods, allowing the creating of complex labour costing formulae
• Cost method hierarchy allows for multi-layering of cost calculations
• Consistent, accurate labor costings in minutes
Material – Key benefits:
• Multiple buying and selling prices for a single component
• Exchange rate and copper factor management
• What-if costing scenarios are easily configurable
• Database-based application provides powerful reporting and analysis capabilities such as internal price
negotiation reports and supplier expenditure analysis
Capital Costing
Formboard Capital Costing automates the costing
function, producing results in minutes,
· Complexity Management compared to days or even weeks when
· Change Management costing manually. Capital Costing enables a
· Component Library Management Toolfeeds
fast response and complete control of profit
margins throughout the project. Quick and
consistently accurate quotes, right first time,
MRP / ERP Data Bridge
are clear business benefits.

PDM Data Bridge
Manufacturing BOM
Labor Analysis
Capital Costing performs harness labor and
machine time analysis based on the harness
definition stored in Capital Manager. Most
company costing standards are complex.
By using Capital Costing, with its extensive
set of harness variables and user definable
costing formulae, standards can be fully
defined and automated.

Reporting and Analysis Material And Supplier Analysis

· Harness Industrilaization
· Design Data Import
· Enginering and validation
· Labor Analysis
· Material/Supplier Analysis
OEM Format Drawing
Labor / Machine Time
Material / Supplier Analysis
Capital Costing provides a single repository
for all cost and price data and ensures
correct results. Cost variations from
imported data can be recorded for each
component including multiple supplier and
purchase costs and differing selling prices
depending on customer. Cost models allow
for testing of ‘what if’ scenarios, varying
copper commodity rates, component
purchase costs and selling prices, using a
variety of exchange rates.
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About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics is a technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA), providing software and hardware design solutions that
enable companies to send better electronic products to market faster and more cost-effectively. Mentor Graphics Harness Systems
expands that focus by providing software tools that address the whole process flow from system concept through to manufacture,
enabling companies to gain that vital competitive edge.

As the complexity of today’s electronic systems increases, the design of the system-level interconnect must be regarded as an integral
part of the total system design. Our unique blend of software solutions and wire harness industry expertise has ensured that Mentor
Graphics is the market leader in this field.

• Publicly held (NASDAQ: MENT)

• Founded 1981, with headquarters in Wilsonville, Oregon
• Approximately 2,975 employees worldwide
• Revenue in last reported 12 months: in excess of $600 million
• World-class research and development
• Over 55 offices worldwide
• Strategic partnerships with leading electronics manufacturers and EDA vendors for development of new design solutions
and methodologies
• Proven track record of success in the Automotive and Aerospace industries

To learn more about how Mentor Graphics Harness Systems can help you improve your wire harness design process, call us today, or
visit our website at www.mentor.com/harness.

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Tel. No: 1 503-685-7000 Keelung Road, Altrincham,
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Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark and Capital Harness Systems, Capital Manager, Capital Bridges, Capital Capture, Capital
Design, Capital Analysis, Capital Factory, Capital Formboard, Capital Costing, Capital Harness are trademarks of Mentor Graphics
Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective owners.